Motivational Quotes

Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.